Wow! BATMAN BEGINS in 16mm!
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Ed Inman <edin...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > John, if by "mainstream" you mean new release major studio films available > for rent on 16mm you could still get about everything in the 90s but things > fell off very rapidly after 2000, and by 2006 it was really the end of the > road. The last one to be released on 16mm as best as I can tell was "Cars" > the animated Disney feature from 2006. Here is the last list of 16mm > titles ever available from Swank Motion Pictures: > https://web.archive.org/web/20071109223539/http://www.swank.com/college/16mmrelease.html > It's worth noting that in the 90s besides Swank and Criterion (which > represented the big studios) a lot of indy distributors also offered their > films in 16mm. Some included October Films, Samuel Goldwyn, New Yorker, > etc. I've often wondered what happened to all those prints. --Ed > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 40 Frames > Sent: Jul 20, 2014 5:44 PM > To: Experimental Film Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Modern 16mm features, distributed on film > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:08 PM, John Woods wrote: > > > > > > Alain, while I'm primarily interested in experimental or artists films, > > I'd open up to mainstream films too. I'm more broadly interested in the > > state of 16mm film as an exhibition format and not necessarily > > experimental. If Spielberg decided to distribute his latest on 16mm, then > > that would count. I guess I'm biased in my thinking that a 16mm print > > nowadays is an indulgence for the creator and few mainstream filmmakers > are > > going to convince their distributor to pick up the bill for the print. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Julian Antos Northwest Chicago Film Society www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org 773 827 8991
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